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2007-2008 Kick-off Agenda - Pictures below


1:30 — Opening & Introductions

  • Reverend Timothy Godfrey, S.J., Director, Office of Campus Ministry, Georgetown University
    Avideh Shashaani, President, Fund for the Future of Our Children


2:00 Panel presentation: Moderator, Zeina Azzam Seikaly

  • "Leadership for Peace," Ambassador Helmut Tuerk                             
    Member of the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

    "Leadership for Peace," Dr.  Monika Tuerk

    "Moses, Jesus, Muhammad:  Prophets for God’s Peace," Reverend Raymond Kemp
    Resident Senior Fellow,  Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University

     "The Jewish Prophetic View of Corruption and Injustice," Rabbi Harold White
    Senior Jewish Chaplain, Georgetown University


3:00  Pizza and soda break


3:30 – Panel presentations:  Moderator, Lansing Freeman

  • "Overcoming the Dynamics of Corruption: A New Leadership Model," Kenneth E. McNeil, Senior Partner, Susman Godfrey, LLP

     "Overcoming Obstacles: Collectively and Collaboratively," June Murray-Crawford
    Hudson High School, Hudson, MA

     "Islamic Ethics and the Question of Corruption and Injustice,"
    Professor Sulayman S. Nyang
    Professor of African Studies, Howard University


4:00 Q & A with panelists


4:30 - Presentation of Micro-Grant Leadership Awards to:
           Priya Agarwal-Harding, Glenelg High School
           Melissa Mergner, Montgomery Blair High School


4:45—Readings from the Sacred Scriptures: Moderator Mike Goggin
           
Priya Agarwal-Harding, Dalia Deak, Gleb Drobkov,
           Mandeep Singh Bedi


Kick-off Photographs for the 2007-2008 Peace Essay Contest:

Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University